When Jeff Noon made his long - await return to skill fiction , it was witha novella called Channel Sk1n , rather than a full - length novel . And Noon says that the wage hike of ebook publishers made it possible for him to publish a al-Qur’an that might have seemed too slight in print form .
Over at Forbes , Suw Charman - Anderson has an amazing two - article series about the rising of ebooks . Shequotes Noon as saying , about the novella Channel Sk1n :
I know that publishers have always looked down a petty on the novelette . I do n’t know why , because I sleep with them , myself . So self - publication allow for me to go with the flow and to let the tale be in its natural state . Nobody ever told me to make it longer . Maybe with some paper publishers that might well have been an issue .
Why publish a standalone novella , instead of just add together enough material to make a full - distance novel ? One reason that Charman - Anderson convey up is that you’re able to print light whole caboodle more often , and raise your profile . Another ground , which noontide mentions , is that this is a distance that ’s closemouthed to a good movie screenplay . Noon says :
I had n’t written a novel for about ten years , so I was n’t exactly in the ‘ novelistic ’ framing of mind . I ’d been writing screenplay during that time , a much more succinct shape . So a shorter piece of work of fabrication , just from a psychological point of view , seemed rather likeable . A way back in , if you like .
Charman - Anderson ’s two - part serial , in which she also talk to Quercus Books ’ Jo Fletcher and author Isaac Marion , is well worth reading in its wholly . you may show her postshereandhere .
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